approval as to disarm all suspicion. "Then, for a while, what do you say
if we take window seats here near the entrance, and note whatever may be
passing on the street? By that time your employers may be through with
the board members and come out."

"Why not go outside in the air, and walk up and down the block?"
suggested Jack.

"Excellent!" agreed Radwin, readily. He accompanied them outside,
though, a few moments later, he excused himself, saying that he had to go
to the nearest drugstore to write a short letter and post it.

"What do you think of Radwin?" Hal asked.

"Why, I guess he's a good deal the sort of fellow that Rhinds wants,"
Captain Jack answered, slowly.

"Don't you like Rhinds?" demanded Eph.

"Now, would it be just right to say that?" asked Jack, slowly. "Mr.
Rhinds has tried to be very pleasant to us to-night. So has Mr. Radwin.
Probably they're both good fellows, in their own way. Only--"

"Well?" insisted Hal.

"Why, to tell the truth," confessed Captain Benson, "Rhinds impresses me
as being just a bit coarse, and Radwin a little too smooth and slick.
To put it another way, they're not just our kind of people. That is,
they're not at all in the same class with gentlemen like Jake Farnum and
Dave Pollard. Now, that's every word I'm going to say against Rhinds or